Mint green crochete baby bonnet. No particular patter or design. Around the face, about two inches from the top, is a fold in the fabric and at the base of the fold it is re folded facing outward. There is a sting tie starting at this outward facing fold. The sting goes around the entire width of the bonnet.

Crocheted and kintted by Theodora Prce herself in the early 1970's. She had left Greece in 1962 for graduate studies in England, after which she worked for a bit in the University of Sydney, and then migrated to America in 1967, to New York and later came to Chicago in 1968. She taught Greek art and Archaeology at the University of Chicago. When she was pregant with her first son she quit teaching and researching and did fulltime preperation for motherhood. This piece was finised before her sons birth.

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